Preamble

Although DataTables is built from the principle of progressive enhancement, it is often useful to be able to construct a table from an AJAX source. This can be done in one of two ways - either using the aData initialisation parameter which takes an array of data, or using the sAjaxSource initialisation parameter which will have DataTables go to that source with an XHR call and load data from there. This example shows the latter method in action. DataTables expects an object with an array called "aaData" with the data source.

Please refer to the DataTables documentation for full information about its API properties and methods.
Additionally, there are a wide range of extras and plug-ins which extend the capabilities of DataTables.